Xserve G5 (Cluster Node)

Description

The Xserve G5 (Cluster Node) operated as a node when a cluster of Xserves was being used. It had dual 2.0Ghz processors, 512Mb of RAM and an 80Gb hard drive.

History

Unlike the regular Xserve G5, the Xserve G5 (Cluster Node) did not include an optical drive or graphics card. It could also only support one ATA hard drive.

The Xserve was geared towards education and enterprise markets. It could be used for a variety of purposes including acting as a file server, a web server in addition to clustering high-performance applications.

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The Xserve can be used for a variety of applications, including file server, web server or even high-performance computing applications using clustering – a dedicated cluster Xserve, the Xserve Cluster Node, without a video card and optical drives was also available. On November 5, 2010, Apple announced that the Xserve line would be discontinued on January 31, 2011 and replaced with the Mac Pro Server and the Mac mini Server.-Jonathan Berkowitz